MediaWiki talk:Captcha-addurl-whitelist

Danger?
Just thinking out loud here... this gives vandals a ready-made URL list to bypass the captcha. MediaWiki doesn't seem to have a permission for "skip captcha for whitelisted links only". I guess I'll have to trust our front-line editors when they say that the convenience makes up for the possible issues, and that someone will watch recent changes to detect troublemakers. Ryan W 18:15, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * How would they bypass the captcha? I mean, sure, if they want to vandalize a page by replacing its content by a bunch of links to some wikipedia page, it's possible; but they could just as well do that by replacing the content with linkless garbage. If they try to add links to buywowgoldandpornwarez.cn, they'll get the captcha even if they also have a link to Doomworld somewhere -- the presence of whitelisted links doesn't allow other links. So I don't see how any risk would happen because of this. --Gez 18:52, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I think you are right.  Theoretically they could still vandalize by adding Wikipedia links to random words, or replacing existing links.  But that is probably insufficiently gnarly (and way too much parsing work to bother coding).    Ryan W 19:50, 22 September 2011 (UTC)